(02-18-2014, 10:58 PM)KILLUMINATI Wrote: We build the space elevator then we install solar panels up and down the sides and voila free unlimted power

Who would build a space elevator for free?

They wouldn't be building it for the sun's energy. When they do build the space elevator all they have to do is allow solar panels to be mounted on it.

The space elevator is going to be for recreation......you know people wanna go into space and they will pay.

Who pays for the materials, constructing, transporting, installing and maintaining of the solar panels?

I dunno but the fact that we would be getting unlimted energy without doing anything to produce it I would think that humanity as a whole could pay for the upkeep............so lets call it cheap unlimted energy

The best material available - carbon nanotubes - is only about 1/2 as strong as is needed.

The earth end would be about the size of your pinkie or less - not the thick cable shown.

If one of these breaks and falls to earth the results would be ugly - it would wrap around the globe 1 and 1/2 times and land with a smack.

Exactly.

Is the elevator going to be made out of diamonds, because you'd need something really strong to withstand all that weight?

Plus, it would be rotating really fast due to the earth's rotation. It's windy at the top of sky scrapers. Imagine the gale force winds for something that extended out into space as it approached the ionosphere.